The article describes improvement of the efficiency of Portland cement clinker production with using wastes of aluminium production - broken electrodes. According to the experience of OAO Iskitim-Cement, when fluorocarbon-containing broken electrodes are introduced into...
A composition of fine-grained concrete is proposed, capable of self-destruction in water after holding firm for a period from 7 days to 2-3 months. Self-destroying concrete, whose main components include Portland cement, gypsum and aluminate (high-alumina) cemen...
The kinetics of modified cement pastes’ hardening was examined with five different samples of Portland cement in the conditions of moist heat curing at a temperature of 30 ± 2 °C. It was found that moist heat curing at 30 ± 2 °C of all cement samples of different materi...
A method for increasing sulfate resistance of concretes with ordinary Portland cements by adding microsilica is proposed. It was found that high sulfate resistance is associated with the specifics of phase composition and structure of the stone formed in the course of c...
When designing and manufacturing the lightweight thermal insulation plasters with very low density, we very often have to deal with the problem of optimizing the thermal insulation and mechanical properties. This paper describes the results from the field of development...
The story of the Afanasievsky quarry development and land reclamation by Lafarge Cement is offered, the characteristics of the equipment used are listed. The measures taken for the comprehensive development of the quarry helped to speed up the restoration of land and to...
On July 3–8, 2011 in Madrid, Spain, XIII International Congress Chemistry of Cement took place. The program of the congress included 447 reports by 1218 authors from 61 countries. An overview of the conference papers is provided.
The article offers information on the last international Conference Baltimix-2011 and provides a review of the conference presentations.
The article gives the story of Ulyanovsk cement plant and lists its range of products. Information is also provided about the project to develop two new quarries of raw materials, other events in the course of technical and social development of the plant.
